Hi GerardM.
I usually use a Google search such as this to find exotic language names:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ruanda%7Csotho+iso%7C639%7Cethnolo…
In fact I was looking for these very two languages just yesterday for
my Wiktionary parser I've been working on. You can find the results of
that effort here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:HippieBot:all_langs_sorted
For many of the languages marked as "unknown" in that list I have made
notes on the talk page where I've found:
Ruanda:
iso:rw, kin; sil:RUA, en:Kinyarwanda
Sotho:
northern sotho: iso:nso, sil:SRT; southern sotho: iso:st, sot, sil:SSO
Which gives ISO 2- and 3-letter codes, SIL code, alternative names,
plus notes that
in this case, Sotho is actually considered 2 non-mutually-intelligible
languages by
the folks at SIL.
Hope this helps.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail).
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:32:58 +0100, Gerard Meijssen
<gerardm(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
I have problems identifying words in two languages. On the
en:wiktionary these are called Ruanda and Sotho.
Ruanda is not known by a ISO 639 code but it should be known by
another name. Sotho is known but with two names; Southern and Northern
Sotho. So what is it ??
Saturday is the word that brought this problem again to my attention.
So far I just removed these entries and that is not nice so I am
asking for assistence.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hoi,
On IRC is was told by "dannyisme" that Ruanda is /Kinyarwanda/ The ISO
639 code is rw and kin. It is the first word in this language on the
nl:wiktionary. I hope many will follow :)
Thanks,
GerardM
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